Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:28:09 -0400 (EDT) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ELF problems to occur Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9808152024560.5813-100000@sasami.jurai.net> In-Reply-To: <199808160014.UAA16120@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > <<On Sat, 15 Aug 1998 18:59:06 -0400 (EDT), "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net> said: > > Whats wrong with specifying the search path with the '-R' flag when the > > program is linked? > > The person doing the linking doesn't necessarily know where the > libraries are going to be installed. In the case of system binaries, they do know where the libraries will be installed. Other things have fiarly standard places to live (/usr/local/lib, /usr/X11/lib etc). If an end user does not like the defaults they are free to recompile the software in question. I would be interested in a utility that lets you edit the compiled in search paths. This would seem to be a far better solution than LD_LIBRARY_PATH. -- | Matthew N. Dodd |This space | '78 Datsun 280Z | FreeBSD/NetBSD/Sprite/VMS | | winter@jurai.net |is for rent| '84 Volvo 245DL | ix86,sparc,m68k,pmax,vax | | http://www.jurai.net/~winter | Are you k-rad elite enough for my webpage? | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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